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  HELPING OUR NEIGHBOR
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: We must be active and earnest in kindness, not just passive and
inoffensive, to truly help our neighbors and please them for their good.

Topics: "Christian Service", "Self Denial"
Scripture References: Matthew 25:40, Romans 15:2, Colossians 3:12, Hebrews 10:24, 1 Peter 4:9

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of considering and
pleasing others for their good, emphasizing the need to lighten burdens,
lessen cares, promote pleasures, and gratify wants and wishes of those
around us. She highlights the significance of self-denial, kindness, and
actively engaging in acts of love towards family, friends, and
neighbors, rather than just avoiding unkindness. Tileston also reflects
on the sacrificial nature of hospitality, where giving what one has is
easy, but offering weariness and pain is a true sacrifice that adds
value to our acts of service.

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Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good.

ROMANS 15:2

Let us consider one another.

HEBREWS 10:24

LOOK around you, first in your own family, then among your friends and
neighbors, and see whether there be not some one whose little burden you
can lighten, whose little cares you may lessen, whose little pleasures
you can promote, whose little wants and wishes you can gratify. Giving
up cheerfully our own occupations to attend to others, is one of the
little kindnesses and self-denials. Doing little things that nobody
likes to do, but which must be done by some one, is another. It may seem
to many, that if they avoid little unkindnesses, they must necessarily
be doing all that is right to their family and friends; but it is not
enough to abstain from sharp words, sneering tones, petty contradiction,
or daily little selfish cares; we must be active and earnest in
kindness, not merely passive and inoffensive.

LITTLE THINGS, 1852

The labor of the baking was the hardest part of the sacrifice of her
hospitality. To many it is easy to give what they have, but the offering
of weariness and pain is never easy. They are indeed a true salt to salt
sacrifices withal.

GEORGE MACDONALD

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/helping-our-neighbor/
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